When the Smoke Clears: Surviving the Australian Bushfires by Chrissy Guinery

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

The world held its breath as 2020 dawned, and Australia was on fire. The final toll was breathtaking - 18 million hectares burned, a billion animals killed, 3000 homes destroyed, and 33 people died.

In this book, Chrissy Guinery presents the human face behind these figures through first-hand accounts of the day-to-day struggle to breathe, to believe, and to love under a pall of smoke and in the path of fire. It's the story of survival that represents the experience of thousands of Australians from the 2019-20 bushfire season, right through to the impact of the coronavirus.

It also begins to answer the question: do you live, laugh and hope again after your family has been threatened, homes lost, children terrified, and the countryside blackened?

This is essential reading for anyone in the world who grieved for Australia as it burned, and for anyone at any time who is wondering where they will find the strength to go on. (back cover)